re: Obi-Wan Kenobi Official Trailer #1

He was there to kill Kenobi. Once he figured out why Kenobi was on Tatooine, Kenobi pulled out his lightsaber and had the perfect duel.

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His main goal was revenge on the empire and taken it down. In his final duel with Obi IIRC he did not even know Obi was there on Tatooine as he was there looking for the one the to bring balance and help defeat the Empire. He did not even know that is was Luke. Even when dying he asked Obi about the chosen one

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Correct. I was just trying to give a very bare-bones explanation of it. But yes, I should’ve explained it better. The goal of Maul became to destroy Sidious’ plans. As he tells Ashoka on Mandalore in Season 7, he was trying to lure Anakin to Mandalore to kill him and deprive Sidious of his prized pupil/apprentice and derail his plans.

When Maul got to Tattooine and found Obi-Wan, he was able to deduce that Obi-Wan was there protecting someone (he figured out that someone was Luke who they now thought to be the Chosen One). He still wanted to kill Obi-Wan, but also wanted to get to Luke. When Obi-Wan defeated Maul once and for all, Maul came to the realization that Luke would be the key to bringing about the destruction of the Empire (Luke’s purpose being to redeem Anakin so that Anakin could destroy the Sith), and he found peace in that.

So from what I’m reading, it sounds like Filoni & Favreau may have made a push to put Vader in the series rather than Maul…

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Hossein Amini was the original writer who worked with director Deborah Chow on the six-episode series. And while it was reported that preproduction paused in early 2020 because Lucasfilm was unhappy with the scripts, the reasoning behind the pause was a little more layered. According to sources, Chow showed the scripts to Star Wars stewards Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau, who were coming off the success of The Mandalorian, freshly launched in November 2019, and deep into work on season two.

Sources note that Filoni and Favreau were concerned about Obi-Wan covering similar ground as Mandalorian — the Lone Wolf and Cub-like story of Kenobi coming out of hiding to protect a child-aged Luke Skywalker. Maul was one of the villains who would participate in the hunt for the pair; Vader was nowhere to be found in this faraway galaxy at this stage, according to those with knowledge of the project. Also, Filoni and Favreau pushed Chow and the show to “go bigger,” according to several sources. In any case, those concerns made their way to Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy, who pressed the pause button. (Joby Harold was eventually hired as the show’s new writer.)

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Yeah I’m totally OK with moving the date just two days if it means I’m getting two episodes.


I REALLY hope this isn’t going to be 30-40 mins episodes like Mando and we’re getting as close to an hour apiece per episode as we can